Re: switching gnulib from CVS to a dVCS

[James Youngman]

On 11/27/06, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> Based on this thread, I took a leap and ported git/cogito to cygwin, so
> that they are now available from a standard cygwin installation, and am
> considering using git on more projects myself.  I think moving gnulib to
> git would be reasonable; I particularly liked the concept of being able to
> diff history without a network connection, and of branches being O(1)
> instead of O(n).

I would vote for this too, despite the fact that I've never used git
before.  The rationale is that I would be able to tag which version of
Gnulib got released in which version of findutils, which at the moment
I can only do by examining the files in the findutils-x.yy.zz.tar.gz
release file.

(That is, there should be no need to have commit access to the root
Gnulib repository in order to simply track which version of the
software I used)

James.